The origins of totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
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Antisemitism, Imperialism, Totalitarianism, Philosophy, german, Antisémitisme, Impérialisme, Totalitarisme, Histoire, Juifs, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Essays, Government, General, National, Reference, Politieke filosofie, Marxisme, Impérialisme, Antisémitisme, Politics and Government, Imperialismo, AntisemitismoTimes
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The origins of totalitarianism
1994, Harcourt
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"acteristic of these times, when Jewish individuals and the first small wealthy Jewish communities were more powerful than at any time in the nineteenth century, was the frankness with which their privileged status and their right to it was discussed, and the careful testimony of the authorities to the importance of their services to the state. There was not the slightest doubt or ambiguity about the connection between services rendered and privileges granted."
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Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in her time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.
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